Introducing Freshly Fallen, Jolly Holiday and Festival of Lights

The chill of winter can be a beautiful thing with freshly fallen snow, holiday lights twinkling and shimmering and the heart-warming act of giving gifts to others. Hopefully today's introductions will help you to enjoy these things just a little bit more this holiday season.

Add the delicate elegance of glittering snow to your projects this winter with Freshly Fallen. These calligraphy-inspired flurries can be layered for more complex snowflakes or stamped individually for simple sophistication. Before you know it, you’ll be stamping a fresh blanket of snow on your seasonal greetings, scrapbook pages, and gift wrap. You’ll just love how easily your projects come together with this fabulously frosty set!

A coordinating die collection will be available for sale separately, retailing for $7. This collection includes a total of 6 wired dies. 3-3/4" x 3"

Jolly Holiday is a trendy, fun filled holiday set that is perfect for creating quick and simple one layer cards as well as cards and projects with more detail. It features a clean and simple design and lots of little extras that will make creating your holiday cards and projects extra special. You will also love the coordinating dies which will make stamping and creating a snap. With crisp, clean images and a fun font combination, this holiday set will be perfect for sending and conveying your message during the holiday season!

A coordinating die collection will be available for sale separately, retailing for $7. This collection includes a total of 9 wired shapes. 3" x 3"

The perfect little collection of images to create beautiful projects for Hanukkah. The large Star of David has a coordinating starburst image that can quickly take center stage on cards, tags and more. The candle images can be used to create a modern take on a menorah, above or behind sentiments.

The Details:

Festival of Lights will be available for purchase on October 15th.

It will retail for $5.

Festival of Lights contains a total of 14 images. The large Star of David measures1-1/4" x 1-3/8". The star burst measures 1-5/8". The "Love & Light" sentiment measures 2-3/4" x 3/4". "Wishing you" measures 1-3/8" x 1/8". The two candles measure 1" and 3/4" tall, and both are a little over 1/16" wide. The dot cluster measures 3/8" x 1/4".

Keep It Simple: Hanukkah is the eleventh in a series of stamp sets allowing you to build a collection of basic, medium-sized sentiments, in a nice variety of fonts, that you can turn to again and again. With this edition we are focusing on "Hanukkah". The font choices will cover everything from modern to elegant.

The Details:

Keep It Simple: Hanukkah will be available for purchase on October 15th.

It will retail for $5.

Keep It Simple: Hanukkah contains a total of 9 images. All of sentiments average between 2-1/4" and 2-3/8" long. They average between 1/8" and 1/2" tall.

This mini stamp set contains a small frame and several small sentiments that are meant to coordinate with the label die included in the Shaker Shapes: Snow Globe die collection. Several different fonts were used, so there is sure to be the perfect sentiment, no matter what style project you’re creating. The snowflake images will coordinate with the snowflake confetti die also included in the Shaker Shapes: Snow Globe die collection.

The Details:

Snow Globe Sentiments will be available for purchase on October 15th.

It will retail for $5.

Snow Globe Sentiments contains a total of 16 images. The label image measures just slightly less than 2” wide x 3/8” tall. The largest snowflake measures just slightly less than ¾” x ¾”. The sentiments range in size from approximately 1” – 1 1/2” long x slightly more than 1/8” tall.

Erin Lincoln has out done herself with the winter seasonal stitching dies! Pair them up with any of our other stitching dies and more for gifts and special holiday keepsakes! The "pinwheel" style die with the Holly can be used to create a 3D holly berry.

The Details:

Seasonal Stitching: Bow die collection will be available for purchase on October 15th.

Now that I've made all of the formal introductions, let's get onto the projects!

I could hardly wait to pull our Freshly Fallen and put it to good use! A bit of an untraditional holiday color scheme was used, New Leaf and Aqua Mist.

I triple stamped each layer of the snowflake without reinking to create this softer, generation stamping effect. The centers of each snowflake were finished with a small gem.

I used the Phrase Play #9 die and the banner portion of it along with Soft Stone cardstock for the top portion of the sentiment. One of the dies from Holiday Double Cuts in Aqua Mist was perfect underneath that.

Note that I kept the design to three of each snowflake for visual balance. A quick and easy single layer card!

For my next Freshly Fallen project I used a lot of soft blues and purples, one of my favorite combos when making snow themed cards! I started by making off an area on my cover with post-it notes and sponging Spring Rain ink around the exterior of it and blending it inward.

After the post-it notes were removed I was able to add the sentiment and snowflakes. The sentiment came from Wet Paint Holiday, with the die-cut in Winter Wisteria and the supporting sentiment stamped in Charcoal Palette.

The snowflakes were done in layers of Winter Wisteria and Lavender Moon. The little dotted accents gave the snowflakes a very different look than those on my first project. I used a 2-way glue pen to add small dots and adhere Prisma glitter.

The sparkle in person is just so pretty! The card front panel was adhered with foam tape for a bit of dimension.

I have a little tag for you next, perfect for dressing up gift cards this holiday season. The Stitched Tag dies were cut from Classic Kraft cardstock, the bottom of the front stamped with Polka Dot Basics II using Fresh Snow ink.

I die-cut the Seasonal Stitching: Holly die from Simply Chartreuse and Autumn Rose felt. The leaves were just stitched down the center with with embroidery floss, but I gathered the tabs of the dimensional berry die-cut into the center to create this beautiful and unique berry accent. All of these were actually glued into place to help save on time and make the arranging a bit more flexible. Two small stick pins accent the side of the berry.

One of the large sentiments from Painted Poinsettias was stamped in the upper portion of the tag using True Black ink.

I stitched the pocket of the Stitched Tag die onto the back of the tag. This is sized perfectly to hold a gift card, so this project is very practical too!

I can definitely see mass myself producing these for teacher's gifts this year! You'll be seeing many fo the other new Seasonal Stitching dies used throughout the week!

Melissa Bickford's Jolly Holiday set is so bold and modern, really bringing a fresh perspective on holiday stamping!

Bright colors were on order for this project! I actually used the back of these tree stamps along with the striped fronts to acheive this look. I chose a monochromatic look for each tree, flipping the stamp over back and forth as I worked my way across. Then I added the stars and tree trunks to finish the arrangmeent off.

One of the hills dies from the In the Meadow die set was used at the bottom. I edged it with a 2-way glue pen and then sprinkled it a bit with Faux Snow.

For my next Jolly Holiday card I created this fun stacked gift using a small stripe stamp in the set along with this fun modern bow. I used some old-school retro Christmas colors, Soft Stone, Hibiscus Burst, Pure Poppy, Pinefeather and Ocean Tides.

I discovered that the new Snow Globe Sentiments set were a perfect fit for these stripes, so I added a few of them in True Black here and there throughout the stack. Kind of a fun way to incorporate sentiments! I scattered some silver star sequins around the stacked gift as well, adhering them with Glossy Accents. Everything is adhered to a Soft Stone card base.

Now onto some Hanukkah projects!

I kept things pretty simple with this design and used the two layer Star of David image from Festival of Lights on the front of this Enchanted Evening card, heat embossing them with Gold Filigree Embossing Powder. Don't you just love all the detail? I added a few star clusters around it using VersaMark ink.

The sentiment was added using Keep It Simple: Hanukkah. A bit of gold embroidery floss was tied around the panel to help add balance to the sentiment.

This design is a nice modern twist on a Hanukkah card, with bold stripes stamped in Spring Rain using Background Basics: Super Stripes.

The candles from Festival of Lights were added in Enchanted Evening, with the flames added in Charcaol Palette ink. I heat embossed the sentiments as well as the dot clusters using Silver Filigree Embossing Powder. Super simple, but really such a dramatic effect!

My last card is a great design I like to use with many of the Keep It Simple sets. I cut the Spring Rain card front into two pieces, allowing enough of a gap to tuck in my sentiment.

The sentiment is stamped in Enchanted Evening and then this cross-hatched Star of David accents the top.

Along the bottom edge I added candles and flames to create a border.

I hope you have enjoyed all the creations that I have shared with you today! Which holidays will you be celebrating this year? Will you be crafting for them? Was there a particular project that sparked your interest today? We would love to hear your initial thoughts on everything we introduced! Please leave a comment on this post to tell us what you think of the new products and you will be eligible to win big!

$75 Papertrey Ink Gift Certificate

to spend however you choose!

You have until 7am EST, October 12th to leave your comment and be eligible to win. Only one comment per person please. One randomly selected winner will be announced on our October Release Winners Page before noon EST the same day. Thank you for stopping by today and best of luck with the contest!

Thank you so much for such beautiful products! I love all the inspiration from you and the design team. And the Hannukah set is gorgeous – thank you for making a new one! I have several friends and students to make Hannukah cards for each year and it is always nice to freshen up my stash! 🙂

The jolly holiday and freshly fallen sets are really cute. The stitched dies have caught my eye too! You all have created beautiful cards and projects! Excited to see what is in store for tomorrow and the rest of the release! Thank you.

Awesome. Those snowflakes are so creative. Reminds me of etch-a-sketch. I’m also loving the 3D berry stitching die set. So much fun. Think my granddaughters would live making these. I’m so excited for the 15th to arrive.

Oh Erin – how can you amaze me so much EVERY MONTH!!!!! Can’t wait to start working on ornaments with these stitching dies. Not to mention booties, pillow boxes, onesizes……. Oh, and thanks for the Hanukkah song being in my head now 🙂

I could see all the potential in the Freshly Fallen snowflakes right away. And your cards …Wowzer! I just love the simplicity of that set. Also love what you did with the Christmas trees of the Jolly Holiday set – using the backs to stamp as well. Great ideas all around!

I LOVE snowflakes, and the ones from Freshly Falling are soooo beautiful! Can’t wait to see the entire set. And since I just got the snowglobe shaker dies, I’m very excited about the snow globe sentiment set.

Oh, the wonderful cards that were made today! LOVE the stitching dies, and I’m dying to find out what some of the small dies (i.e. little square) are for, but just the holly, with the fabulous swirly piece, have me sold on that set.

I wondered how you could possibly add to the Hanukkah sets from a the past, but wow! – you hit it out of the park. Your cards using the new Hanukkah set are as fabulous as all the other past Hanukkah cards.

There’s only one problem this year, and that is, you have created so many ‘must haves’, than it is kind of paralyzing. I think Betsy’s latest kit would have sold out in a day if we hadn’t wanted all those great dies that came out right before. Still must say though, Papertrey packs more bang per buck, than any other company out there.

I personally celebrate Hanukkah – and I LOVE all the new Hanukkah products, not a lot of companies make them! But I make WAY more projects & cards for Christmas, since that is what all my friends celebrate, and I celebrate the spirit of the Christmas season as well, good will towards men! 🙂

Wow – what a fabulous set of stitched dies for this round. I have to say the snowman stole my heart! Gorgeous new stamp sets and you really showcased how easily a simple stunning card can be made – important with the holidays coming up!

Nichole, the Christmas Cheer tag is beautiful and the Peace on Earth card in all it’s glitter-glory is so pretty. The chevron trees stamped in those rich bold inks has to be my all time fave 🙂 Everyone’s projects are just an inspiring winter wonderland of beauty!

Not only do you gals design the greatest stamp sets and dies, but you always create such fantastic cards (traditional or non). Planning to make my Christmas cards again this year but have to decide on a design soon. Thanks for all the inspiration!

LOVING those die sets to bits… I can’t wait to see what the DT members come up with! Fabulous job ladies! Though I celebrate Christmas I have quite a few friends who celebrate Hanukkah and that stamp set would be just perfect. TFS!!!

The snowflakes look darling, and I can’t wait to see all of the stitching dies. However, the set that inspired me today is this sentiment set for the snow globe dies. Can’t wait to see the rest of these!

Those new loopy snowflakes are super fun!! And I absolutely LOVE the stitched pocket tag you created!! The dimensional holly berry is fabulous!!!! I’m planning to make a bunch of Christmas cards this year and also some gift items for family, neighbor friends, and my husband’s co-workers. Would love to get my hands on some of these new goodies to incorporate into those projects!!

It’s been hot here in southern California. 85-95 hot.. But seeing these posts are really getting me in the mood for some Christmas card making! I might just splurge and turn the A.C. on to 70, get a warm cup of tea, turn on a Christmas playlist and craft away today! Merry Merry to you!

This whole set of projects is really super, it is hard to find Hanukkah sets that are classy and this is perfect! I must have this set. Also, as I have said before, I love all snowflake stamps and dies, need I say more? I don’t usually get into holly but this set is awful cute! (Seems like I say these things about everything you put out, guess that’s why you are my fav!)

I can’t retrieve my jaw from the floor! Your cards are STUNNING and GORGEOUS and DELICATE and MESMERIZING and I can not find more adjetive….sorry!
I love every single one of them! Congratulations! As I think about what to buy I am including the snowflakes and I live in Puerto Rico which is a tropical island and we don’t see snow…boy are you a good saleswoman!

You ladies are so creative! I will be celebrating Christmas and plan on making ornaments from your most recent release. I am inspired by the cards that you posted featuring this upcoming release. I really like how you used non-traditional colors. I love the trendy designs of the snow flakes and the trees. Thanks for the opportunity to win!

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